Monday, December 12, 2011

How To Reset an Aruba Networks AP105 to Factory Defaults?

Yup, I screwed up. I tried to program an Aruba AP105 without doing my homework first. At the time, I was in a hurry and took the easy way out. I used my spare radio. However, as any good geek knows you should never leave your only available spare in a non working state. So, I set off on a journey to find out how to reset the factory defaults on my access point.

Truthfully, I cheated. I asked a support technician at the end of a call for an unrelated ticket. My pride prevents me from opening a ticket before I do any research and I was to lazy to do the research. If you are actually still reading this than you are substantially more motivated than I was.

Power on the AP and get into apboot mode. You'll see the option to go into AP boot mode when the AP is booting. You will have to press Enter within a 1 second window so pay attention to console messages during bootup.

From the apboot prompt, enter the following commandsapboot> factory_resetapboot> purgeenvapboot> saveapboot> boot

That's it! Your Aruba AP's will now be set back to factory default.

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Reset ButtonThe reset button can be usedto return the IAP to factory default settings. If youhave converted your IAP to a campus AP,pressing the reset button converts itback to an IAP. To reset the IAP:1. Power off the IAP.2. Press and hold the reset button using a small, narrow object, such as apaperclip.3. Power-on the IAP without releasing the reset button. The power LED willflash within 5 seconds.4. Release the reset button.The power LED will flash again within 15 seconds indicating that the reset iscompleted. The IAP will now continue to boot with the factory default settings